The MIDI Protocol: Bits, Bytes, and Binary | Simon Hutchinson

Understanding how the MIDI protocol efficiently uses binary to communicate messages about musical performance.

In this video I give a quick review of bits and binary, and talk about why the range of MIDI note numbers, key velocities, continuous controllers, etc. are all from 0 to 127.

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0:00 Intro
0:41 Bits and Counting Binary
2:12 MIDI Messages and Bytes
3:00 Status Byes and Data Bytes
3:43 0 - 127
4:33 Efficiency and Efficacy
5:18 Next Steps

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